Ladies club helps out poor students
Posted by barunroy on June 2, 2008
SILIGURI, June 1: Members of the Siliguri Ladies’ Club distributed text-books among 100 poor and meritorious students of over 40 schools in Siliguri at the Mitra Sammelani Hall here last evening.
Distributing the books, Mrs Gangotri Chakravorty, Head, Department of Law, North Bengal University and the chief guest of the function urged teachers and guardians to develop a spirit of enquiry among children. The function was kicked-off with a cultural programme presented by students of the Sharda Sishutirtha, Sevoke Road. The veteran legal luminary, who echoed the sentiments of Allan Pease, as expressed in her famous book, “Questions Are The Answers”, stressed: “To succeed in life, children must constantly quiz their seniors on various aspects of knowledge.”
The Siliguri Ladies’ Club, which organizes a picnic for handicapped children and a quiz competition for the under-privileged students every year, has been distributing text books to poor and promising students, on the basis of the lists of children provided by the various vernacular-medium schools in the town, for the last 25 years. The 20-member club organizes charity shows and cultural programmes every year and uses the proceeds from them for this purpose. [The Statesman]
